COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Regulators are giving an update on their investigation at a nuclear fuel plant in South Carolina where uranium pellets went missing.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday is presenting results of an inspection at the Westinghouse Electric Co. plant near Columbia.
The company told regulators in May it could not find a small container of low-enriched uranium pellets.
Westinghouse's 550,000-square-foot plant near the Congaree River makes fuel rods for nuclear power stations across the country and employs more than 1,000 workers.
NRC officials say they haven't found any evidence that the uranium ever left the site or that the public was ever at risk.
A final report on the inspection should be available in several weeks.
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